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Originally Posted by Scimitar
Thanks for the update Mr Mullins,
Could you tell us what the current cost gap is for the project?
And is that in Rand or $US?
S
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Hi Scimitar,
the cost gap is about R250 000 at present. However that is at Gen. Opperman's estimate based on the previous re-patriation of remains.
Our costs for Skillie may be considerably less as I have been asked by an Angolan diplomat to help in tracing the whereabouts of a relative who was taken as a POW by our side.
He was not repatriated with his comrades and the family desperately wants to know what happened to him. I am making extensive enquiries our side and have as yet not found any answers, apart from a photo of him, apparently unwounded in captivity with his comrades.
If I can find a satisfactory answer to the puzzle, it will aid immeasurably in getting Skillie home quickly and inexpensively.
That means that we are probably only about R100 000 short right now.
The operation that started with the search for Skillies grave site has now morphed into a double search on both sides of the conflict. I am now looking for both Skillie Human as well as Capt. Sebastiao de Carvalho Jeronimo. Worthwhile things seldom come easy.